Polk County in Iowa
On Friday, November 16, 1962, Anna Maria Medici was killed in a hit-and-run shortly after a co-worker dropped her off at the edge of Highway 69 in Carney, Iowa. The 21-year-old was then hit by another vehicle that also kept going, and then two more vehicles, which stopped at the scene.
Anna’s mother, Maria Medici, who had been standing at the window waiting for her daughter to return home, witnessed what happened to her daughter and was able to provide some information to authorities.
Courtesy photo lwindslow, findagrave.comThe Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation’s Cold Case Unit, which operated from 2009 – 2011, investigated Anna’s case as one they hoped to solve using the latest advancements in DNA technology.
On the DCI’s (now defunct) Cold Case Unit website, they’d reported that on November 30, 1962, evidence thought to belong to the victim was removed from the drive shaft of a 1961 Pontiac registered to a man from Ankeny, Iowa.
In 2023, the Iowa Attorney General’s Office Cold Case Unit was established to aid local law enforcement in their unresolved homicide cases.
The Cold Case Unit consists of experienced investigators and prosecutors who work in partnership with sheriff’s offices and police departments to prioritize and investigate cold cases of homicide, missing persons under suspicious circumstances, and unidentified human remains.
The new unit officially launched in July 2024 and is located within the Statewide Prosecution Section of the Criminal Justice Division.
If you have any information about this or any other cold case, please contact:
800-242-5100
coldcase@ag.iowa.gov
Submit a tip online using the AG’s COLD CASE TIP FORM.
You may also contact the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation at (515) 725-6010, email dciinfo@dps.state.ia.us, or contact the Polk County Sheriff’s Office at 515-286-3306.
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Both of Anna’s parents — Maria and Pietro Medici — died without seeing their daughter’s killer brought to justice.
Pietro died later the same year Anna was killed, and Maria passed away in 2005.
Anna and her parents are all buried at Saint Mary’s Cemetery in Highland Park, Lake County, Illinois.
Pietro the father died in 2005 same year as the mother. Not the daughter, The victim.